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This is a silly study. Replace AI with "Expert opinion", show the opposite result and see the headline "Study shows alarming levels of distrust in expert opinio

This is a silly study. Replace AI with "Expert opinion", show the opposite result and see the headline "Study shows alarming levels of distrust in expert opinion". People made the assumption the AI worked. The lesson here is don't deploy an AI recommendation engine that doesn't work which is a pretty banal takeaway. In practice what will happen with life or death decision making is the vast majority of AI's won't be deployed until they're super human. Some will die because an AI made a wrong decision when a human would have made the right one, but far more will die from a person making a wrong decision when an AI would have made the right one.

croes 2y ago
They already use AI for life or death decisions.
johnnyanmac 2y ago
> People made the assumption the AI worked. That's the dangerous part. >In practice what will happen with life or death decision making is the vast majority of AI's won't be deployed until they're super human. They are already trying to deploy LLM's to give medical advice. so I'm not so optimistic.
jrflowers 2y ago
> This is a silly study. Replace AI with "Expert opinion", show the opposite result and see the headline "Study shows alarming levels of distrust in expert opinion". This is a good point. If you imagine a different study with no relation to this one at all you can imagine a completely different upsetting outcome. If you think about it you could replace “AI”, “humans” and “trust” with virtually any subject, object and verb. Makes you think…
a2128 2y ago
> don't deploy an AI recommendation engine that doesn't work Sadly it's not that simple, we are in an AI hype bubble and companies are inserting ineffective AI into every crevice it doesn't belong, often in the face of the user and sometimes no clear way to turn it off. Google's AI overview and its pizza glue advice comes to mind.

croes 2y ago

They already use AI for life or death decisions.

johnnyanmac 2y ago

> People made the assumption the AI worked. That's the dangerous part. >In practice what will happen with life or death decision making is the vast majority of AI's won't be deployed until they're super human. They are already trying to deploy LLM's to give medical advice. so I'm not so optimistic.

jrflowers 2y ago

> This is a silly study. Replace AI with "Expert opinion", show the opposite result and see the headline "Study shows alarming levels of distrust in expert opinion". This is a good point. If you imagine a different study with no relation to this one at all you can imagine a completely different upsetting outcome. If you think about it you could replace “AI”, “humans” and “trust” with virtually any subject, object and verb. Makes you think…

a2128 2y ago

> don't deploy an AI recommendation engine that doesn't work Sadly it's not that simple, we are in an AI hype bubble and companies are inserting ineffective AI into every crevice it doesn't belong, often in the face of the user and sometimes no clear way to turn it off. Google's AI overview and its pizza glue advice comes to mind.